Over the years I have had many different approaches to bringing in visitors to my sites, have it be spamming other sites(I don’t do this anymore thankfully), using adult content of some sort, or just having a good read here and there.  I am once again in the process of looking over the site and seeing how to attract traffic… But this time some more relevant traffic.  I was speaking with Ted and he has gone from zero visits a day when I helped him get his site setup to having about 70k a month unique (Correct me if I am wrong Ted).  Anyways I hope in the months to come to have some valid visitors coming this way reading some hopefully well written articles (I might need help on this if you know anything about my writing skills).  Well anyways this post was once again a little ramble off the top of my head and nothing of real importance, but if you have any suggestions about driving traffic I would be interested in hearing them.

I have been trying to figure out why there is such a lack of updates on blogs that I follow, including mine.  I am kind of noticing a trend that the people that used to blog a lot seem to have a pretty up2date twitter account.  I know I am guilty of not blogging due to my frequent yet unimportant updates on twitter.  Is anyone noticing this as well?  Do you think that twitter, pownce and systems like those might be somewhat of a downfall to full fledged blogs?  I have been dabbling with the idea of actually moving my blog into a sub folder and then just putting up a front page that gets the RSS feeds from my twitter, last.fm, flickr etc and displays those on the front of my site and then just offering a link to my blog.

After abruptly being woken up today nice and early I figured that I would put some work into my linux box. It was almost foreign to me, since I haven’t been doing anything linux since I moved. My Mediacenter has mainly just been sitting online running as a Transparent Squid proxy, Caching DNS server, Fileserver to my XBMC. The specs of the machine are as follows:

1.25ghz AMD XP
512 PC2700
784gb of Random SATA Drives.

As you can see its not anything that special, but houses a decent amount of drive space and handles everything just fine for my needs. That being said I wanted to squeeze a as much juice out of it as possible. I figured the best way to do this would be to remove any unused services that start, really no need in running cups when there is no printer connected to it. I also removed bluetooth, pcmcia, and a bunch of laptop services.
I really need to find my extra ram that I have laying around and spruce it up to 1gb of ram, as well as purchase another SATA card so I can add a few more drives that I have laying around. Adding the SATA card should boost me up to around 1tb of storage. More than enough space to start downloading the internets.

I came across this post, I gave it a try. Seems alright so far, though most of my friends dont update that often so its a little bare. Give it a try.

Over the last couple of days I have been watching the Hellraiser movies. For you that have not seen them, well I was going to say you are missing out… but that is hardly the case. The first Hellraiser movie is for sure a cult classic of sorts, but the others seem to fall short. I was reading IMDB and came across information about a remake of the original. Why must hollywood do this?? I mean just give it a rest. The year 2008 seems to be the year of remakes. Not only are they redoing this movie but once again redoing the Hulk movie too. Granted the Hulk movie should hold up a little better since it does have Edward Norton, but I am sure the CGI will make everything look horrible.

I have really been slacking on site updates, mainly because I have been avoiding my computer in all ways possible besides my daily visits to Craigslist.  Even with that I have yet to land a job, but it has still been a blast in Vegas non the less.  
My days have been occupied with applying for jobs, interviews and countless rounds of disc golf.  I have been working on some site designs for a few clients to bid the time as well.  
As for this site I am have had a few design ideas in mind, yet I have not really wanted to take the time to work on it and push through the ideas I have in mind.
This weekend a friend from Michigan is coming to Vegas and then taking a drive to California, I might hitch a ride so I can work on my tan at the beach…  If I do I hope to add some photos since I have been slacking on that.
Anyways there is an update to occupy your time for a few until I get around to a full update.  Good day.